Rodrigo Sermeno

Home prices aren’t falling (yet), but their ascent is leveling off as higher mortgage rates dent the market.

Can a German fiscal push outweigh French political peril?

Look for exports to go from boosting GDP to slowing it.

The president wants to make the U.S. the leader in digital assets.

Trump is promising that the short-term pain of steep new tariffs on imports will spark a manufacturing renaissance. But they pose major risks in the near term.

The Trump administration wants to strengthen U.S. leadership in the cryptocurrency industry by providing regulatory clarity.

Challenges for Europe: Potential tariffs, high energy prices and more competition from China will weigh on the bloc in 2025.

Lower mortgage rates will breathe some life into the market but stretched affordability and low inventories will continue to hold back activity.

What the slowdown in China means for U.S. businesses.

From fuel to AI software subscriptions, here's what businesses can expect to pay next year.

What’s behind the insurance price hikes, and what to do about them?

Regional bank stocks were hammered recently after news of New York Community Bank’s big fourth-quarter loss.

The property market remains a major drag on Chinese growth, with sales now 50% below their peak.

In 2024, expect hybrid and work-from-home trends, tighter budgets, rising rents and the demand for data centers to continue.

After tumbling in 2022, there was a Bitcoin rally last year. It doubled in 2023, with other forms of cryptocurrency rising even more.

Banks are expanding their efforts to restructure CRE loans to avoid losses from the commercial real estate sector.

Transactions settled in yuan, between China and the rest of the world, have grown by 24% in the first three quarters of this year alone.

A jump in mortgage rates has caused housing affordability to slump and priced many first-time home buyers out of the market.

BNPL companies are facing the challenges of high costs, tightening financial conditions and regulatory scrutiny.

Although fewer banks are tightening lending standards, more businesses and households are feeling the squeeze.